Education

Practice profile

Laurence Li’s practice focuses on finance, and encompasses banking, commercial, company, and securities law. He has advised financial institutions, accounting firms, valuers, investors, the Government, listed companies, their directors, regulators, as well as shareholders in a full range of compliance and contentious matters. For such cases Mr. Li appears before the civil and criminal courts as well as the specialist tribunals (the Market Misconduct Tribunal, the Securities and Futures Appeals Tribunal, the Takeovers Panel, and the Listing Committee of the Stock Exchange).

Mr. Li is a fluent Putonghua speaker and also often acts in Mainland-related disputes.

Before being called to the Hong Kong Bar, Laurence Li worked at the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) for 6 years from 1999 to 2005. He was the draftsperson of parts of the Securities and Futures Bill (now the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571)). He later served as the Commission Secretary and then as a Director of Corporate Finance responsible for listed company matters.

Prior to joining the SFC, Mr. Li practiced US corporate tax law at the New York head office of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.